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Fabian Heß

@fabianhess.bsky.social

Trying to warp his scientific heritage to fit his continuing sensory promptings. Social Psychologist @UniJena | interested in social identity, intergroup behavior, and philosophy | latest research rdcu.be/ejnEo

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#DGPs2026 #DGPsKongress2026

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At the DGPs congress in Luxembourg, Johannes Lautenbacher, Wanda Drabon, and I discussed the consequences of agency and control for collective action, such as activism and radicalism.

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Exciting to see this Handbook "out in the wild", including a chapter I contributed to on Nature, wilderness, and the body! @stysyropoulos.bsky.social @fabianhess.bsky.social among others! #academicsky #existentialism #deathdenial

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🎃 Mr Too Damn Boo-no 👻 @bergoesbueno.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One of the very best from Clickhole

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📢 Call for Submissions Submissions are now open for the 23rd Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes, taking place 9–12 July 2026 in Tambach, Germany.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 16/10/2025

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality. This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀 diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Abstract
We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing
with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange
high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered
is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as ‘cheating’ by outsiders,
insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent
low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined
to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium
among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from
that associated with the Prisoners’ Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested
rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally
‘lazy’, agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly ‘pro-social’: for the advantage of
maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services,
provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They
develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are
endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by ‘cartels’ of mutually
satisfied mediocrities.

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This article reveals a fundamental misconception of AI. ChatGPT doesn't know (or care) what's true or false. It cannot be "honest" or "sincere" with you (therefore it is never evil). It is still a helpful tool if you don't have similar expectations as of a human conversation partner.

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Rapid climate change threat can foster antagonistic radical responses (pro-road blocks and anti-activists): doi.org/10.1037/vio0...

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

New research: threat does not necessarily increase radicalism/hostility but ingroup norm conformity (which can also promote harmony/friendliness etc.): doi.org/10.1002/casp...

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Muslims and Non‐Muslims: In Conflict or Harmony With Each Other? Conflict‐Related Ingroup Norms Shape Threat Effects on Intergroup Behavioural Intentions

Threat increases ethnocentric motivation and can thus trigger hostile intergroup behaviour. However, ingroup norms–whether promoting conflict or positive intergroup relations–should moderate these ef...

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Is radicalization necessarily a fringe phenomenon? In IJPCS, I present a social-psychological definition of the radicalized mainstream: rdcu.be/ejnEo

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Radicalized Mainstream: Turning an Oxymoron into Something Meaningful

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Engagement vs Rückzug: ich durfte im ZeitschleifenPodcast über Ungangsformen mit Krisen sprechen. open.spotify.com/episode/4uU3...

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Realitätsflucht oder Selbstfürsorge? Rückzug in turbulenten Zeiten

Zeitschleifen · Episode

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sorry fürs Rumnörgeln am ansonsten tollen Thread, aber diese Schlussfolgerung ist aus dem zuvor Geschriebenen logisch nicht zulässig. ;-) Deine Chance, als Nicht-Deutscher angezeigt zu werden, ist im Allgemeinen zwar um 50% erhöht, aber ob das auch gilt, wenn du Straftaten begehst, ist unbekannt.

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Fabian Heß @fabianhess.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Oh, our civilization is actually organized around science, but science doesn't tell us what to do. That would be a misunderstanding of science...

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